I met up with Winfred again, this time he brought the ‘boss’ of his photo society and a few chicks from his school to act as models. We headed roughly to the same place as last time, although this time much later in the day. We decided we’d try get some sunset shots. The weather was less than perfect in terms of visibility and it was cold as well. This made our relentless march up into the hills less than enjoyable for our dainty model friends, but… in the end, certainly got some good photos out of it…
This is Gao Jin (高金.) The first of our models. She majors in Chinese and speaks very little English, but a very polite girl, and photogenic. 🙂 (This is how you have to say a girl is “pretty” when you have a girlfriend 😉 )

and this is the infectious smile of Zhu Hui (朱惠.) An art major who again, speaks no English and while is stereotypically shy — she’s very charismatic.

I took the opportunity of this blog post to experiment with super-large portrait-orientation photos. Usually most of my photography is landscape, but this time most of my goodies were portrait, so to really show ’em off, I have to go big. I’d appreciate your thoughts on how it worked out. Too big? Did they look purdy? Lemme know in the comments, or shoot me an email.

Thanks Kay! The huge portrait images is something I’m “umm”ing and “aww”ing over a lot. I like how it makes you examine the photo in detail, like standing next to a piece of art in a gallery, and having the scan the painting with your eyes (not that I’ve ever actually done that – I’m not one for traditional art) but at the same time, you can’t really stand back and take the whole image in. Hmmm. Maybe I think about these things too much!